Improvement in game-boards



UNITED STATES l JAMES T. EDSON, OF STOWE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE L.`

PATENTy OFFICE.

CROSBY, OF BERLIN, MASSACHUSETTS.V

IM PROVEM ENT IN -GM E- BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,491, dated April 25, 1865.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. EnsoN, of Stowe, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Game-Board for playingthegameofFortica tion Solitaire, or other gam es ot'like character; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described. in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of 'which- Y' s Figure 1 is a top view, Fig 2 an edge elevation, Fig. 3, a transverse section, and Fig. 4 an under side view, ot one ot' my improved gameboards.

It consists not only of a circular tablet formed with a series otl semisph erical recesses arranged on it, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and having a groove circumventing them, but ot' a ball dish or receiver arranged underneath M, ,the tablet, and so applied to it as fo-turn or v `be capable of being turned from underneath it outward on a screw or pin connecting the eceiver to the tablet. v In the drawings, A denotes the said tablet, of which c c a, &c., are the series of semispherical recesses extending from and below its top surface, and arranged relatively to one another, as represented in Figs. 1 and 3. A groove, B, circuinscribes the series of recesses, and by means of a passage, b, leading out of i, communicates with the ball receiver or box C, which is circular in form, open at top, and is arranged underneath the tablet, and c011- nected to it by means of a screw, c, which extnds through the receiver ata point near its circumference and screws into the tablet, the arrangement of the' screw being such as to enable the receiver to be turned on it and from underneath the tablet in a manner to uncover such receiver, its position under such circum-` stances' being indicated by the red lines at C in Fig. l.

While playing the game of solitaire for" y l instance, for which the board, as shownin the `j f W time when the receiver may have been turned outward from underneath the tablet far enough to uncover it and expose the halls sufficiently to enable access to be had to them. The receiver also serves as a place for holding the balls when the board may notbe in use.

I claim 4 The combination of the groove i B and the passage b, leadingtherefrom, with the gameboard A and the receiver C.

JAMES T. EDSON.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, I". P. HALE, Jr. 

